I think it's safe to say that your #1 song took us by surprise. Beyond that, there's a lot of Arcade Fire and a lot of Kanye at the top, and it's not until you get past #20 that the list really starts to open up to other artists.

Seems like there were fewer ubiquitous and widely-loved chart pop songs this year. Pretty much Rihanna, Gaga, and then a couple of others that broke through (we exclude hip-hop from this list.) "Teenage Dream" was hard to deny, Erykah Badu was a stretch for inclusion but "Window Seat" did chart, just barely. "Yamaha" didn't chart at all but it would sound great on the radio next to the other tracks here.

Like the album list, this ranks the percentage of total votes cast for a song that were in the #1 position, and once again, we set 200 votes as a minimum. The ribbon length represents the total number of votes cast. If Dillinger Escape Plan there had us suspecting something was up as far as fan coordination, the winner here is pretty much definitely the result of organized collusion. Total Slacker? Sufjan's "Impossible Soul" makes some sense-- the song is 25 minutes long and if you were to vote for it, would be kind of weird to have it in fourth place. And then a lot of people loved Cee-Lo and Ariel Pink.

I guess a lot of Americans thankfully don't know what the fuck "Jedward" is or that shit would have run away with this. As it is, the more blandly inoffensive but ridiculously everywhere Justin Bieber was an easy winner, suggesting that hype is more disliked than outright bad music.

Again, not a lot of surprise at the top, with indie and modern rock godheads mixed alongside huge cult favorites. Down the list are impressive showings from Refused, Mogwai, and Fatboy Slim, with songs that eked into the top 50 when it wasn't obvious that they would.